YESSSSS Packages on the way!!!!! We went to go to the terminal to get the packages for the zone, Elder Howard and I (another Elder whom I live with--he's one of the zone leaders actually), I WAS really hoping for a package... and there were six big boxes that we picked up, and none of them were mine.... but I didn't lose faith... So I'm really glad they're on the way.

I know you hate typos... I imagine that you correct a lot of the things that I try to say in my emails haha.

Wow, Wilder decided to cut his hair.... So it was really long in summer and in the cold winter he cuts it..... Well sounds good whatever he wants haha... Btw, it is really hot here today. Santa Rosa is like a humid field where the sun just pounds on you.... luckily the new internet place is nice and cool.

Ok so we are trying to help five different people get baptized at the end of this transfer... we have 3 weeks left. We are trying to help Mirta and her daughters Mikaela, and Yesica. Also, Emanuel, and Lucas. They are the investigatores that have asistences at the church at the moment.

Emanuel didn't come to church unfortunately and is difficult to find lately...

Lucas... Lucas's wife was getting frustrated that Lucas was talking so much with us. We tried inviting her at one point but she didn't want to know anything. So he has been relatively difficult to find also.

Mirta, Mikaela, and Yesica are a little timid and unsure if they want to get baptized yet...

But the good news about all of these people is that they love the church and have desires to go, some more than others... More specifically, Mirta thinks that this is the true church and her daughters really enjoy being there. Especially because the members treat them really well. But yeah, the only thing is is that the baptism thing hasn't quite sunk in, so we're going to try to resolve whatever the doubt is. And then with the others we are going to try and find them during this week.

Something super cool happened this week in the district. As a district, we arrived to a total of 34 new investigators. We don't usually do that and we are going to keep going up.

All the missionaries who live in our house, with the Loza Family, we eat lunch with them every Sunday.

Photo of the church, and another of the street that leads down to the border of my Area , Santa Rosa 2, and the Area Santa Rosa 4.

A lightning bolt that I caught on my camera, from the bus, on the way back to Santa Rosa.

Elder Peterson and me, I met him in Tandil, and now he's in the same area here, Santa Rose 2. He finishes his mission in three weeks.

Yeah I heard about the Obama thing. Whenever we're walking in the street and we go to talk to people, about every other person asks us what we think about the eleccions... We evade the subject if possible.

That mission apartment of Grandma & Grandpa's looks really nice... It seems like an apartment where they would put 4 missionaries down here, haha, and it would be like the Ritz Hotel!!! The apartment that we are living in actually is one of the nicest apartments in the mission.

Thanks for the update on Wilder's Eagle Project. I would love to go to Africa with Andy one day, I think that would be one of the coolest things ever... You think Wilder's already forgotten how to drive? Don't be surprised if I've forgotten also haha...

The ATM thing... No, it didn't give me a receipt either. Sorry, I think we're in the hole with this one. It was one of those ATMs right in front of the bus station that just always gets banged up, and I'm not sure if there are any cameras.. ya está...

Elder Cross and I have this investigator named Emanuel. He is super cool, he's a capo. He came to Church by himself yesterday and to the young adults activity that they had also. We met him two weeks ago and that's when we taught him the first time. We taught him the whole lesson on the restoration and he whipped out some doubts as we were teaching him. He had been to the Evangelical church and the Jehovahs Witnesses, even got baptized in the evangelical church but as he said, "It didn't fill him." Because he's been looking for the thing that "fills him" that is really going to bless him, or in other words the church...

The second time we taught him was Saturday in the afternoon at the church. We can't go to his house because his mom doesn't want us to go there at all. Not really sure why she doesn't like us... But anyway while we were teaching him he said that he had already read like 200 pages in the Book of Mormon, in two weeks!!! And he believes it's true... If he goes to institute we're pretty sure he'll get baptized.

We have a bunch of investigatores that we have to see and teach this week, and we gotta make sure they go to church. It's pretty fun... and it's looking like in the last two weeks of the transfer we could be having a few baptisms, we're going to make sure there are a lot... (BIG photo !!!! :)

So we are really excited to be working... After practically 3 conferences, I am really excited. My three favorite things in Missionary work... Baptizing, Finding new investigators, and Teaching... Best ever.